Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Intention: That all people will learn how to come together in generosity and trust to restore our nation’s spirit of community.
Today’s Gospel | Luke 18: 1-8
Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’ For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’” The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
From the Third Meditation for the Time of Retreat | Saint John Baptist de La Salle
Because you are obliged to help your disciples save themselves, you must engage them to unite all their actions to those of Jesus Christ, our Lord, so that their actions, made holy by his merits and by his consecration, are able to be pleasing to God and a means of salvation for them. This is how you must teach them to benefit from the death of Jesus Christ, our Lord, and to make the advantages and merits of his death effective in them.
Prayer
Eternal Father, we have so much for which to be thankful to you, yet so often we are too caught up in ourselves to stop and give you thanks. Lord, help us to pray. Teach us to slow ourselves down and make time to sit with you, to listen to you, to be attentive to your presence. And as you work in us to renew and transform us, may we share with you not only our needs but also our gratefulness and our hope. We ask this of you who lives and reigns with your Son and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.